Ryhanna Linton is writing a topic paper for her 11B Visual Arts class about the history of drawing in the Caribbean. The paper discusses the earliest known drawing, a red crayon doodle found on a small brown stone in South Africa dated around 73,000 years ago. It also mentions that some of the earliest drawings were found painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain dating between 30,000 to 10,000 BC. The paper provides context that modern art emerged in the late 19th century and is characterized by experimentation and abstraction moving away from traditional narrative forms.

1. Name: Ryhanna Linton
Class: 11B
Subject: Visual Arts
Topic: History of drawing in the Caribbean

2. Section 1
THE RED CRAYON DOODLE
FROM a cursory glance, the lines on this small, brown stone could be
mistaken for a natural formation. In fact, it is the first known drawing ever
made by human hands.
“This is the beginnings of cultural modernity and sophisticated behavior,” says
Colin Renfrewat the University of Cambridge, who was not involved in its
discovery. “You would be astonishedif you foundanotheranimal species
producing something like that. It’s the origins of humankind.”

3. Drawing started in the earliest known drawings date from 30,000 to 10,000
B.C.. They were found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. Other
examples of early drawing are designs the were scratched,carved, or
painted on the surfaces of primitive tools.
Sometime in the Stone Age, human artists began experimenting with a new
form of visual arts: drawing. Now, from the ancient rubble the accumulated
on the floor of a South Africa cave comes the earliest-known example—an
abstract, crayon-on-stone piece created about 73,000 years ago.
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly
fromthe 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art
produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the
traditions of the pasthave been thrown asidein a spiritof experimentation.
Modern artists experimented with new ways fromthe narrative, which was

4. characteristic for the traditional arts, toward abstraction is characteristic of much
modern art. More recent artistic production is often called contemporary artor
postmodern art.